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Apr 25
This week in Reception
SUMMER FUN Here is our Curiosity Cuboid: We are thinking about pollution in the sea and the effect of it on sea animals. The children have been looking at the cuboid and comparing the items inside considering which things should be in the sea and which should not. Literacy In Literacy we have continued to …
Apr 18
This week in Reception
This week in Reception we welcomed the children back to school after the Easter holiday. The children have all been really happy to be reunited with their friends and adults and very quickly reacquainted themselves with the environment. In Literacy we have a new story: Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham. Mr Gumpy links in …
Mar 28
This week in Reception…..
Wow! What another busy week we have had! We have continued our learning about Handa’s Surprise but this week we have innovated our own ideas. We began by changing the main character and fruits in the story. What do you think of our ideas? We tried really hard to use our phonics independently to write …
Mar 21
This week in Reception
This week we have started a new story called Handa’s Surprise. We have started to explore the story further in Child Initiated Learning and have been doing some fantastic writing in our purple books. We will keep you posted so keep an eye out for more amazing story writing soon! Here we are in explore …
Mar 14
This week in Reception
Spring has sprung!Here is our Curiosity Cuboid ready for Easter. The children have enjoyed looking at it and spotting the signs of Easter. Understanding the World The children have been helping us to plant some seeds in the investigation area. They will be eagerly observing changes over time. PE We have begun our Jungle Gym …
Mar 07
This week in Reception….
We had some lovely interactions with the baby chicks that hatched in Nursery and this also ties in nicely with our Owl Babies learning in Literacy. We have been excitedly following a live video of the chicks in action during our explore time! We think they are very cute! This week we have been using …
Feb 29
This week in Reception
What have we been up to this week? Owl Babies Some new friends have come to visit us this week in Reception! They are called Sarah, Percy and Bill! Like us, these owl babies sometimes miss their mummy. This is a book which can help reassure children after a half term break, that they will …
Feb 12
This Week in Reception
Looking after Property We have introduced Apple displays to help children know which areas they are responsible for in tidy-up time, which so far has been a great success! This is helping the children learn to take care of property and respect our school. We will be rotating the names to ensure it is fair …
Feb 08
This week in Reception
Another week, another celebration of all our fantastic learning! Reception have been busy learning all about Chinese New Year. We read some stories about the animals that had a race and enjoyed finding out which animal we are based on the year that we were born. 2024 is the year of the dragon, so we …
Feb 02
This week in Reception
The children looked splendiferous as they entered school today! We really enjoyed becoming word detectives to find out the meaning of new words as well as celebrating the range of words we knew. Some children celebrated words in their home language, others chose words from their favourite sport and some from books, conversation and films! …